enforcive
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
enforcive (comparative more enforcive, superlative most enforcive)
- Serving to enforce or constrain; compulsive.
- 1605, Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], The Dutch Courtezan. […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for Iohn Hodgets, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:
- But faith, doſt thou not ſomevvhat excuſe my ſometimes incontinency vvith her enforciue beauties.
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Further reading[edit]
- “enforcive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.